Originally Posted by LHardy
I can tell you that under Universal Health Care, physician compensation would drop dramatically for specialty care. Notice the particular specialties that were included in the Indiana survey - Family Med, Peds, ER, and surgery. Those specialties are the ones that deal with the highest number of uninsured patients. ER would be at the top of that list because most uninsured people use the ER as their primary "physician".
That said, If compensation were the only factor, I would imagine that the number of physicians in favor of nationalized health care would drop significantly if all of the specialty fields were included in that survey as well.
I, like you, am 100% against government-sponsored healthcare. NOTHING the government does is efficient. Why anyone would delude themselves into thinking that government involvement in healthcare would be any different is beyond me.
It's not a popular belief, but I also believe that health care is a priviledge, not a right. Nobody is guaranteed health insurance. If you have a job that doesn't have health insurance benefits and the government says "that's okay, we'll give it to you", doesn't that effectively remove the impetus to improve yourself and get another job?